# Trump Goes from Obliteration to Negotiation on Iran

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Podcast: [Pod Save the World](https://stenobird.com/podcast/pod-save-the-world-954315)
Published: 2026-03-25T07:30:00+00:00
Episode link: https://audioboom.com/posts/8878447
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## Resource

In the past few days, Donald Trump went from threatening to obliterate Iran's power plants to announcing a surprise diplomatic reprieve and declaring that the war has been won. This episode breaks down the whiplash: what actually happened, whether the talks are real, why an agreement between the US and Iran will be extraordinarily hard to reach, and why $580 million worth of energy trades just minutes before Trump's announcement reek of insider trading and corruption. Ben and Tommy also cover: the US allowing Iran to sell $14 billion worth of oil, Iran firing missiles at a joint US-UK military base, Israel's creeping occupation of southern Lebanon, signs that Trump is actually harming far-right parties in Europe, and how a workout app put a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier at risk. Then Tommy talks with Edward Fishman, the author of Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare , about the ballooning economic cost of war with Iran and how it’s revealing America’s economic vulnerabilities. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here . For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast. Preorder Ben’s book All We Say: The Battle for American Identity: A History in 15 Speeches ( Barnes & Noble , Bookshop ) and subscribe to his Substack here .

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